MULTIPLE PERSONALITY-DISORDER - FACT OR ARTIFACT

Multiple personality disorder remains a controversial diagnosis. Littl e progress has been made towards establishing a consensus for the use of the construct of multiple personality disorder. The intensity of th e controversy did not decrease when the name was changed to dissociati ve identity disorder. The controversy centers on iatrogenicity, the de layed effects of childhood trauma, and the variable constructions of t he repression and dissociation metaphors.